Hotel Waldhaus Vulpera

Built in neo-Renaissance style spa building and Grand Hotel Waldhaus Vulpera with ornate elements sgraffito was in Europe for a long time as the first address in the spa tourism in the Alps and landmarks of the Belle Époque. With 270 beds, it was the largest hotel in Scuol Scuol - Vulpera and went as one of the leading hotel construction of the 19th century in the history of architecture a.

History

It was the Grand Hotel Waldhaus Vulpera 1896-97 was built on behalf of the " hotel company Waldhaus Vulpera " by the architect Nicholas Hartmann senior ( 1838-1903 ), opened on 8 June 1897. Among the regular guests of the Hotel Waldhaus belonged from 1959 Friedrich Dürrenmatt, who used his visits to let them flow into his last novel Durcheinandertal.

In 1883 the brothers Duri and Caspar Pinösch took over from Ardez boarding house " Waldhaus " in Vulpera. The basement and ground floor rooms of the " Pension Waldhaus " were partially integrated into the south wing of the new hotel building from 1896-1897, the rest of the " Pension Waldhaus " was torn down.

In 1886, a wooden chalet as Villa annex of the Hotel Waldhaus Vulpera on behalf of the brothers Pinösch by the builder Baur and Nabholz ( Seefeld Zurich ) was built. From 10 June 1894 until July 11, 1894, this chalet Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (Netherlands) was a guest. Because of this visit, the villa is now named "Villa Wilhelmina " or " Wilhelmina Villa ".

Already in 1894 Vulpera receives its own power plant (Brown, Boveri & Cie and Escher Wyss & Cie.. ) And for the first time electric light.

1930 built the " hotel company Waldhaus Vulpera " the third hotel - pool in Switzerland ( also called beach ).

On May 27, 1989, the hotel was destroyed by a major fire caused by arson. According to the annual report of the buildings insurance Grisons it followed a total loss with a loss amount: 23 million francs Today there is a park in which there are still elements of the Grand Hotels ( fountain and cast iron columns) and the Villa Wilhelmina.

Today in operation hotels of the former " Hotel Company Waldhaus Vulpera " are the " Hotel Schweizerhof " (built 1898-1900 by Karl Gottlieb Koller), the "Hotel Villa Post " ( built in 1901 as a post office of Vulpera ) and the hotel "Villa Engiadina " ( built in 1901 by Karl Gottlieb Koller). The existing still original hotel pool, which in 1923 created golf equipment golf clubs Vulpera and the power station museum also bear witness to the creative power of the hoteliers dynasty Pinösch. Especially through this unique hotel buildings Vulpera was included in the inventory of estimable townscapes Switzerland.

Exhibitions

  • As it pleases the guest. Hotel architecture past and present. The Yellow House, Flims, 2008-2009. The exhibition presented ten hotel biographies, including Waldhaus Vulpera - canceled hot?.
  • Grand Hotel Abyss: Poetry and poets at the hotel. Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg. September 1, 2009 to 25 October 2009. Designed by the Munich Literature House exhibition included, among other exhibits from the Hotel Waldhaus Vulpera and was supplemented for Neuhardenberg to pieces from the Grand Hotel in Berlin and decisively deepened to a visual arts installation by Udo Lindenberg.

Movies

  • Tender is the Night (1985 ) BBC adaptation of the novel " Tender is the night" ( Tender Is the Night ) by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ( Backdrop )
  • Fire in the Hotel Waldhaus in Vulpera television documentary by Claudia Knapp color / Romance 6 min, 1989.
  • Formation and effect of the sources of Scuol - Scuol -Vulpera (1941 ) Teaching film with animated sequences and shots of the spa Scuol -Vulpera of the Kurärtzen the Grand Hotel Waldhaus Vulpera Dr. Pauline Lenz and Dr. MS Meier, in collaboration with the narrow- Film AG Zurich, black -weiss/Stummfilm with subtitles.
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